A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news
- Like a virgin?
- Moon landings and Nazis.
- Enslaved people lived here.
- Stop saying breast milk is free.
- We’ve already had a gay First Lady.
- Finding the “men” in mental health.
- The phantom of the anatomy lecture.
- When Soviets tried to eliminate the plague.
- The disturbing resilience of scientific racism.
- 19th-century novels, with better birth control.
- The road to abortion is paved with bad bus routes.
- Did the Vatican hide art that shows female priests?
- Anthropologists hid African same-sex relationships.
- The false narratives of the fall of Rome mapped onto America.
- Why are menstruating women in India removing their wombs?
- Jane Addams, Mary Rozet Smith, and disappointment in the archive.
- Chronic pain, “beautiful suffering” and the endurance of Victorian stoicism.